Bill Text: TX HB3250 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to protecting landowners against aquifer depletion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3250 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3250-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Callegari H.B. No. 3250
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to protecting landowners against aquifer depletion.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 36.002, Water Code, is amended by adding
  Subsections (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows:
         (f)  Within a particular
  aquifer subdivision, at any
  particular location where groundwater was available on or after
  September 1, 2013, the annual production capability of groundwater
  per acre of land that is owned and that overlies an aquifer
  subdivision shall not be reduced, as a result of the rate of
  permitted groundwater production of the aquifer subdivision, to
  less than the proven production capability on or after September 1,
  2013, or an authorized common production rate per acre applied to
  the aquifer subdivision throughout the management area the land is
  within, whichever is less.  Where the ability to produce
  groundwater has been reduced by permitted production of the aquifer
  subdivision below these amounts, the district or districts having
  authority over the particular aquifer subdivision shall:
               (1)  reduce permitted production of groundwater by the
  same percentage for all permit holders sufficiently to restore
  production capability to these amounts;
               (2)  supply water to the particular location in these
  amounts by pipeline at the rate of proven production or the
  authorized production rate, whichever is less;
               (3)  revise established desired future conditions and
  modeled available groundwater and establish a common production
  rate for the particular aquifer subdivision throughout the
  management area as necessary to allow the affected landowner to
  produce at that rate.
         (g)  To comply with Subsection (f), districts and management
  areas may at any time revise desired future conditions established
  under Section 36.108, modeled available groundwater, and
  production permits.
         (h)  A district may charge a production fee to cover the cost
  of supplying water to landowners, lessees, or assigns for losses
  and damages described by Subsection (f).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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